A more strange sound than any that is heard anywhere else in the world. It is a more incessant, loud, rapid, and various gabble of tongues of all tones than was ever heard at Babel.
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Related There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it ... DANTE ALIGHIERI He was the star of 'The Nutcracker.' I heard more about him than anything else. DORICHA SALES She plays with more integrity than any young violinist I have ever heard. YEHUDI MENUHIN The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us ... FRITZ KREISLER And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at al... BIBLE Lucas heard a strange sound, something he hadn’t heard in months. At first it didn’t seem real, ... MARK A. COOPER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than us... FRANK JAMES Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that... CONRAD AIKEN I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I heard there was a lot of talent here and there's more than I expected. LANCE JAMES I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world. EDWIN STARR There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel... SUN TZU I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else. DONNA MILLS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER There are more world champions from Florida than anywhere else. MATT KECHELE He heard the loud boat, heard a loud noise and then the boat was quiet, CASSIDY Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It cert... WATT KEY There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs... OSCAR WILDE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspe... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere e... SARAH LACY I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state -... AL JARREAU Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard. HARUKI MURAKAMI Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ALICE WALKER There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cann... CONFUCIUS I just heard it was a tough place to play. I heard it gets loud in there and that the fans heckle a ... ERIC LANE I've heard more about this little piece of paper than I've heard about lots of things lately. JANET WRIGHT American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything an... JAMES A. BALDWIN American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything an... JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequent... AUDRE LORDE The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan... TOSHIHIKO FUKUI Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one ... SUZANNE FIELDS What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've nev... JOHN L'HEUREUX Their rising all at once was as the sound
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever... LESLEY GARRETT That crowd was crazy. That was the loudest I've ever heard a building, even louder than in the Froze... RYAN DINGLE He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and no... STEPHEN KING More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else. JONATHAN STROUD I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. NEIL GAIMAN I've heard pileated woodpeckers make that kind of sound; I've heard crows make that kind of sound in... JEROME JACKSON I heard a lot of stuff, but my wife and family heard more. If you want to be a coach, you have to de... ERIC PRICE Gentle whispers from above Awakened me more Than ever did This loud world HOLLY DUCARTE Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials. 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I cannot imagine a more uncer... GORDON SMITH Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we ... TED CRUZ
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